Make visuals, images and documents

Three things the model can make instead of describing. There is no button for them: you ask in words — “make me a chart of…”, “generate an image of…”, “write me a PDF with…” — and the agent calls the tool.

You ask for	You get	It lasts
A chart, a live table, a small interface	An artifact: a small interactive page shown in the chat	Until the server restarts
An image	A real file in the project — PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF or AVIF — listed in the Library	Yes
A document	A real file — PDF, Word, spreadsheet, presentation — saved in the project	Yes

Keep what you need

An artifact is kept in memory only. When TALOS restarts, it does not open again. If you will need it tomorrow, ask for its content as a document, which is written to disk.

An artifact has no access to your data: it is a page served apart, with security rules of its own.

Control it

The tools behind these are governed in Capability, like every other: to stop TALOS from generating images, set that tool to deny. Keep in mind that generating an image and creating a document write to disk even when the write tool is denied — two of the three paths described in Permissions.

If something goes wrong

• An artifact does not open again — the server was almost certainly restarted. It cannot be recovered: ask the model to make it again.
• An image is not in the Library — check that the generation finished; the file is written at the end.